Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-12

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AFRAID nothing that l. much use TO US at pre,ent y
III g not case OF suicideg"
,,o., saes ior Yourself You remember that at the
inQoesa the Rev. Alfred Stuckey stated that he r.
tnIneo with his father from Richmond about s.
anu IeIt aquarter OF an hour later in order RI
ea.Sh me 90 Metropolitan train 10 King's-cross"
very well Now have ascertained that Mr.
AIirea and the deceased took a carriage al Rich
mona not long before r. m, but were only driven
as Tar as Barnes, where. at their own reguest they
were put down on the tOw-path- have found me
nynan, who says that he set them down on the
ton-pdtD, nearly opposite Chiswick about 4 .aO
ana saw them walk away eastward We nave also
~ hold OF an old woman who saw them on the
i0w-patn near Hammersmith Bridge but whether
DelJN or above she cannot state, walking In the
utectloD OF Putney. She says IL was within A few
minutes Of O'Clock. and Just getting dusk. on
.nI osy, october Is. the sun you Will ind set az
so Now, &c Is not impossible, OF course that
Wired stuckey may have been on the tOw-path
Ssxs ny, s uwsra Putney. about O'Clock, and yet
NINA this evidence throws grave doubt on mis-
10Y. remember, we have only Alfred stuckey's
SVfa for II that the deceased ever went home al
AZ On the other hand there is a strong presumn
I s snat some time after O'Clock that night he
inc ~ ~ INTO the river. having been, accord
n ,a,, nrsc presumably BY some one no had
nas NJ on ooihs so which stranger TO him would
You think be was murdered7.
49, ~. 10 .neory at present; but think that
80 49,, A..ieu and Ephrlim stuckey between them
nno~ more ABOUT their fathers disappearance tnan
they nave yet disclosed, and that tue evidence we
INK the truth out OF them VI 'qaee1-
Then what DO you adviser
fut AL our Information IN the hands ~ ,,e
police We shall never prove suicide ann /, n he
Aease OF murder That does not help me once gr
l. therefore, not worth the cOmpany's While 70
syehd money On further inquiries on the orhsr
haho, III there be any fraud In the case the trnfh
VIII very soon come out when one or other OF thess
Eehtefnen Is arrested on charge OF murder WHICH
ieNpect We shall see before another week II over
IN THIS last conjecture MI George was M,
t1i1taken-ne very seldom was about such mat
tSf% within four or fiye days from the time when
e DIN 1rcsd his Information 10 scotland Yard the
leN. Allfeo stuckey was In custody, charged with
1aGTierng his father "1'A
When ne appeared before the magistrate the facts
e-c1iec o. hr. George were supplemented by a
ihc>e OF evidence o. tue most darnning characfer
y tfslnp, named Higgs was called and be depos.ed
- h4Slrg seen the deceased, whom he knew we'll
~ signl, IN company with another man on the
s-N-path between HamInersmith and P,ltney come
Inc AFTER dark; 70 having overheard some.
Jazz Ike an alteration, the old man AZ.
hs'eh.y refusing 10 90 on, and the young one
u catching 70 chuck him into the river n he
acre troeo.esome, and, finally, 90 having
bTa'd lolq er1es after he had passed Hievs did
aite.apt 70 identity the prisoner but az was
-- tnat the man with the deceased was in a
coat ana closely resembled the prtaoner In
A~-i'. aud nSure. With regard 10 the time he